Photo: Benson Kua from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Woburn North has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Scarborough Civic Centre, 1.4 km away
Woburn North is served by Toronto public library, the library of all of Toronto, so the figures here are the city’s, for 3,110,984 people. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioBehind Woburn North’s civic life grade
Woburn North gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Woburn North has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
5,846 registered charities are based in Toronto, by mailing address
There is no count for Woburn North on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.8; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
32.1%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
Everything counted at Toronto public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.4 km from Woburn North
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Woburn North.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Woburn North.
Questions about the library and civic life in Woburn North
Does Woburn North have a public library?
The map shows none in Woburn North; Toronto Public Library - Scarborough Civic Centre, in Bendale-Glen Andrew, is the closest.
How busy is Toronto public library?
Its 2024 report counts 13,968,916 visits in person and 11,595,454 items lent.
Library statistics: Ontario Public Library Statistics, 2024. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).